**Official English County Cricket 2013**

[S Chanderpaul]

Moeen Ali is in some mad form at the moment!

 

[theegyptian]

240 is about as much as Glos can chase at Bristol so Somerset should be fine. Willey and Ravi in good form with the bat.

 

[Neil Pickup]

All good shouts for some ODI action if England go along the lines of resting everyone who may be slightly tired after the Ashes.

Meanwhile, Fabian Cowdrey is blocking it so it looks like Somerset, Notts and Hampshire to win their groups, with Glamorgan best-placed for lucky loser status.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Somerset could probably use someone staying with Buttler for more than six minutes. 197/3 becoming 204/7 has rather changed this game of cricket - and the complexion of the whole day's mathematics.

Also, I do somewhat feel like I'm talking to myself here but Fabian Cowdrey hitting it through cover this over has made me think of Steve Smith. Maybe that's Spikey's thread. Maybe it's a genuine technical resemblance. Maybe it means I should go do some work.

 

[grecian]

Somerset could probably use someone staying with Buttler for more than six minutes. 197/3 becoming 204/7 has rather changed this game of cricket - and the complexion of the whole day's mathematics.

Also, I do somewhat feel like I'm talking to myself here but Fabian Cowdrey hitting it through cover this over has made me think of Steve Smith. Maybe that's Spikey's thread. Maybe it's a genuine technical resemblance. Maybe it means I should go do some work.

Chawla has turned out to be a great signing so far

Clearly the last part of the Summer will all be Ravi's.

 

[Cabinet96]

Yeah, this is a really poor finish for Somerset. Still hope for a Buttler onslaught for two of three overs though, I guess.

 

[Cabinet96]

Also, lol @ David Willey.

 

[King Pietersen]

Not having a bad couple of weeks is he. Hero on T20 finals day, 2 matches for a winning England Lions team, and now 167 off 101. Gonna bet he'll take a 5fer in this innings too!

 

[Neil Pickup]

All getting interesting numbers-wise. Northants have pushed their NRR up from +0.102 to +0.372, getting Glamorgan back in range, who won't want to take too long over their chase of 215 against Yorkshire.

Northants will need to knock over Warwicks for below 129 to have a chance of getting their run-rate above Glamorgan's. The Steelbacks' best chance might be fore Gloucestershire to turn over Somerset and then beat Gloucester on run-rate. In Group B, Hampshire might also miss out if they can't defend 220 (although if Derby turns square again, Briggs and Dawson should be able to keep that together). Essex will be hoping that Derby can pull of that chase, as that's their only way in ... so long as Lancashire don't chase 300...

#runrates

 

[Pothas]

If Hampshire lose what are the chances of them going through in second? Pickup to tell me.

 

[MW1304]

Willey

 

[Viscount Tom]

Asking rate here at Headingley is currently climbing.

 

[theegyptian]

If Hampshire lose what are the chances of them going through in second? Pickup to tell me.

Unlikely. They would need Glamorgan to lose + either Notts or Northants to lose (or both losing would be fine). I think.

 

[fredfertang]

Looks like Ravi went easy on Kegga, either that or he doesn't seem to have been too traumatised by recent experience

 

[Cabinet96]

Asking rate here at Headingley is currently climbing.

If only the same could be said for the game at Bristol

 

[Neil Pickup]

If Hampshire lose what are the chances of them going through in second? Pickup to tell me.

It will require both Glamorgan and Notts to lose, and whilst it's in the balance at Headingley, I can't see how Notts can possibly toss it off from here.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Carberry has three wickets at Derby. That has never happened in senior cricket before. I have no idea what they have done to that wicket but the pitch inspectors are likely to be getting interested shortly.

 

[Pothas]

Haha yeah, I was slightly concerned for a while there.

 

[mightymariner]

yes I was maybe a little harsh there. Just annoys me when teams don't even attempt runchases especially when established players such as Nial O'Brien just have a little batting practice at the expense of everybody else. Seems to be just a lack of direction at leics without any key players to base a team around. How are the young players going to develop with a team like Leics had today?

We can only develop one good player at a time, before they leave for Notts

Anyway the reason that we're not that good at chasing is usually that it's simply too much to chase. I've said for a while that our bowling's the problem, and until we sort that out we're going nowhere.

 

[Neil Pickup]

More numbers:

Wins for Notts, Hampshire, Glamorgan & Somerset put them all through. If Glos beat Somerset then Northants are best runner-up. If Glamorgan blow it then it's winner of Gloucs/Somerset + Northants as best second: Northants' massive score has made Lancs/Essex meaningless.